Ted Robinson Biography

Ted Robinson is an American sportscaster. He was the radio play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers from 2009 until 2018. Since 2000, Robinson has been with NBC as tennis play-by-play, Olympics, swimming/diving announcer and NBC Sports Network for college football/basketball. He also works for the Tennis Channel and the Pac-12 Network.

Ted Robinson Age

Robinson was born on July 19, 1957, in Queens, New York, United States of America. At the moment, he is 62 years old as of 2019. Besides, he holds an American nationality and has a place with an ethnic foundation

Ted Robinson Education

Ted Robinson grew up in Rockville Centre, New York and attended Chaminade High School. He is a 1978 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with future U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly.  He also worked with the future Notre Dame Football coach Charlie Weis at the college radio station. After graduating, Ted got his first job broadcasting Hockey for a minor league team in Oklahoma City.

Ted Robinson Body Height

Unfortunately, his body Measurements are under review. Otherwise, he has a caucasian skin tone with an athletic tall slim body. He has brown hair and brown eyes.

Ted Robinson Net Worth

Robinson acquired a strong measure of cash all through his fruitful career. Truly, the primary wellspring of his wealth is from his professional career as a sportscaster and a play-by-play announcer. Ted’s net worth is around 2 million as of 2019. Regardless of procuring such a great amount of cash, Ted hasn’t uncovered the insight regarding the properties he possesses like house and cars.

Ted Robinson Wife

Ted is a happily married man. He has been married to his longtime girlfriend, Mary for decades now. Together the couple was blessed with to children who graduated from ND. His children’s names are Ann who was born in 2005 and Pat who was born in 2008.  His wife, Mary, is also a ’78 ND grad, and their two children graduated from ND as well: Annie in 2005 and Pat in 2008.

Ted Robinson at 49ers

Robinson has previously worked as a radio play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers for more than ten years now. However,  it was announced Tedwill be moving to a different role within the organization. Therefore, he will be replaced by former longtime Raiders play-by-play man Greg Papa. Further, he also calls a variety of sports for NBC throughout the year, including swimming, diving, and triathlon.

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Ted Robinson at NBC

Robinson joined NBC Sports Group as a play-by-play commentator on Major League Baseball Game of the Week telecasts in 1986. In 2000, Robinson returned to NBC as an anchor of the network’s tennis coverage. His role was to call for the French Open, and The Championships, Wimbledon. Moreover, Robinson’s voice is featured in the movie A Few Good Men as he announces a  Minnesota Twins game being watched by Tom Cruise’s character.

Ted Robinson on Tennis

Robinson has broadcast for Tennis Channel since 2007, calling the French Open, US Open, Davis Cup, Fed Cup, and US Open Series. Furthermore, he has also served as the lead announcer of NBC’s tennis coverage since 2000.

Ted Robinson on French Open

Robinson has called the French Open and (through 2011) Wimbledon Championships for NBC. He broadcasted the US Open for 22 years on USA Network. Due to this, he received acclaims for his partnership with John McEnroe, which continues on NBC and Tennis Channel. The pair also called the men’s singles Gold Medal match at the 2012 Olympics, played at Wimbledon.

Ted Robinson on Baseball

Robinson has worked for a number of Major League Baseball teams over the years. He served as a radio and TV announcer for the San Francisco Giants for 9 seasons. Here he served as the TV announcer of the Minnesota Twins for 6 seasons. He also worked as a TV and radio announcer for the New York Mets for 4 seasons. Additionally, he was the TV announcer for the Oakland Athletics for 3 seasons.

Robinson worked for The Baseball Network as an announcer for two years. For four years, he worked on NBC Sports’ Major League Baseball Game of the Week. He also spent several years as a play-by-play voice for CBS Radio’s Game of the Week. In 2007, Robinson teamed with Steve Stone to call the American League Division Series for TBS.

Robinson returned to calling Twins games in 2011, calling play-by-play for the team’s radio broadcasts on a part-time basis due to primary announcer John Gordon working a reduced schedule prior to retiring after the season.

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 Ted Robinso in Olympics

Robinson served as NBC’s diving commentator for the 2012 London Olympics. He has also been a play-by-play man for the last eight Olympic Games(four Winter Olympics and four Summer Olympics).

His Summer Olympic assignments began with baseball at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Here, the U.S. baseball team upset Cuba for the gold medal. The team also won gold in diving and canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, both for NBC.

He was a commentator at the Winter Olympics. His assignments began with short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, and the giant slalom snowboarding event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano for CBS.

Shortly afterward in 2002, he covered the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He was also at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the 2010 Winter Olympics, this time for NBC.

Robinson called Apolo Ohno’s eight short track Olympic medals for NBC and served as the play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports coverage of diving at the last three Summer Games, including David Boudia’s gold medal win in London.

 Ted Robinson on Other sports

In 2012, he became the lead play-by-play voice for the new Pac-12 Network, working primary football games and other sports. In 2011, he continued his college football work for Versus (now NBC Sports Network). At NBC, he called college football games in 2009–11, and. In 2008, he served as a studio host for College Football Central.

Robinson has called many other sports over the years, including college basketball for CBS TV and radio. He has broadcast the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship tournament on the radio for 24 years, currently with Dial Global. For NBC, he has covered swimming and diving, arena football, ski jumping, luge, equestrian, and triathlons.

From 1980–82 he served as a color commentator on radio broadcasts of the NHL  Minnesota North Stars. In 1983 at the age of 26, he was named play-by-play voice of the NBA Golden State Warriors, a position he held for two seasons. In 1989–90, he was the TV voice of the NBA Charlotte Hornets. He called Pac-10 Basketball for FSN and in 2011 he continues his college football work for VERSUS as the play-by-play voice of Pac-12 football.

He was the radio voice of Stanford football for 13 years, has broadcast Notre Dame football and basketball, University of Minnesota basketball, and University of California basketball. In 2008 and 2007, he hosted College Football Central for Versus, for whom he also called play-by-play of Pac-10 football and  Mountain West basketball in 2009 and 2010. In his 22 years at USA Network, he called Grand Slam tennis events, boxing, college basketball, PGA Tour golf, and the World League of American Football.

Ted Robinson Contravacies

In 2014, he was suspended for the remarks he made about Ray Rice and domestic violence this week. While talking about Rice during a segment on KNBR-AM on Monday, Robinson had this to say about Rice’s wife Janay, “How does she marry him after that? How does she go in front of Goodell? That’s pathetic to me,” Robinson said.

Due to this, the team president Paraag Marathe considered Rice’s comment offensive hence suspending him for two games.
Robinson was also suspended for two games by the Pac-12 Network. On January 28, 2012, Smith was arrested on DUI charges in Miami Beach, Florida after his rookie season with the 49ers.

September 20, 2013, he was arrested in San Jose on suspicion of driving under the influence after a single-car accident at 7 a.m. Smith took a leave of absence from the 49ers after the arrest and was later sentenced to 11 days of work release as a result of the incident. April 8, 2018,  Smith was arrested after reportedly having a blood alcohol level of 0.40 when he reported to the San Francisco sheriff’s department for ankle monitoring.